Category: Cool
DIY Daylight Saving Time
[Found here.]
Paludicolous Hot Links
Fatty Patty, Lee Pickett & The Screamers (1958)Lee Pickett (rhythm guitar and slap bass) joined up with Marvin Ross (lead guitar) and Paul Jennings (drums) and recorded Fatty Patty and She Left Me With The Blues in a Denver basement. Marvin recalled, “We only used ‘Lee Pickett & The Screamers’ for that one record & a few promotional bookings. Jolt Records picked the name for us, but by then we had taken the name of the Blue Rhythms.”
I can’t explain this illusion.
Non-newtonian fluid on speakers.
Live report from Hoover Street [via].
Send your name to the moon on a thumb drive.
[Top image found in here, which links to this, and that’s all I know about it.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 720 – Nautilus Smile, Gameboy Sniff & 3 Strikes Football
Bug
[Found in here. Also added a new category for all things Volkswagenish.]
Doug the Potato
New Zealand couple Colin and Donna Craig-Brown discovered a huge potato they named Doug on their farm in Hamilton. But they had no idea the monster root was there, as it was found in a cucumber patch. Donna said, “We couldn’t believe it. It was just huge, but with an ugly look.”
The official weigh-in at a local farm shop showed a weight of 7.8 kg (17 lb 2 oz). The Guinness World Record currently holds the heaviest potato in 2011, Spudzilla from Northampton, which weighed 4.9 kg (10 lb 8 oz).
The couple say they have applied to the Guinness Book of World Records for Doug to be recognized and are waiting for a response. In the weeks since they were discovered on August 30 [2021], the potatoes have become something of a celebrity. Colin even built a small cart to carry the tuber with him.
[Images found here. Caption via google translate.
Somewhat related post here.]
Backyard Steel Mill
Little Porky Peeper
In the mid-19th Century, not long after the invention of photography, John Benjamin Dancer (1812 – 1887) began printing tiny photographs onto glass slides at his studio in Liverpool, England. In Paris, René Dagron (1817 – 1900) wondered how to circumvent the need for an expensive microscope to view them. In 1859, Dagron patented the first Stanhope lens mounted with a mini-photograph.
He named it after the magnifying device invented 50 years earlier by Charles Stanhope, Third Earl Stanhope (1753-1816). In the late-18th century, Stanhope invented lenses which allowed all sorts of “viewers” to house images in secret. Stanhopes, also called Bijoux Photomicroscopiques, became known as ‘peep holes’, ‘peep-eye views’ or ‘peeps’.
And this little piggy had a secret…
Dolichopodous Hot Links
Don’t Look Back, Them (1965)Them, a garage-rock/blues band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in April 1964 and had major hits the following year. George Ivan “Van” Morrison went solo in 1966; the band scored more hits and continued to record and perform into the 1970s.
Gonna be a long game.
Over the face and down the throat.
The Two Minutes Hate in the Dawning Age.
Everyone is affected by the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
[Top image: Ceramic sculpture by Steve McGovney (2014) found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Kay Kyser, John & Adrian, The Wheelgrinders & James “Super Chikan” Johnson
Kay Kyser (& his Kollege of Musical Knowledge) performed one of the strangest compositions I’ve heard recently. Invented in 1939, the Sonovox (or Talk Box) was featured in many advertisements, and used for the voice of the talking train in Disney’s Dumbo. [Found here via here.]
Possibly the best lip sync of Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs ever. (That’s John and Adrian according to the YouTube post notes.) Whoop, la-di-dah.
The Wheelgrinders are three hep cats from Vancouver B.C. cranking some entirely bitchin’ roots rockabilly. [h/t Gord S.]
Famed Mississippi bluesman James “Super Chikan” Johnson plays a mean butterfly diddley bow.
Glad this week is over. The wind is picking up, so keep an eye on the weather forecasts. Have a great weekend – be back here tomorrow just for the helluvit.
Tacky Raccoons 